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...energy producers and consumers--and that makes it so profitable for B.C. Hydro to transmit power south--is in growing disarray. The consequences could be even higher prices and more uncertain supplies for Canadians as well as Americans. "We need a stable energy system on the continent," says Ray Hart, deputy director of the Department of California Water Resources. "I don't know if we'll get it." In particular, rising doubts about deregulation could impede Canadian plans to finance increased energy production, which in turn could help the U.S. avoid blackout...
Parents can protest for only so long. Tracey Hart, 14, admits her toes "get a little cold" as she walks through her Philadelphia neighborhood. Her mother Sandra just shrugs and expresses a hope that "the phase passes quickly and she doesn't get sick...
...very seriously debate changing it to Snatched for fear of the vulgarity," says vice chairman Gareth Wigan. But Ritchie put up his dukes and won his title back. Now that the film has already been a success overseas (and you must admit the idea of hearing Mary Hart say Snatch is pretty delicious), the suits have come around. "I was wrong," admits Wigan. "The vulgar connotation hasn't even surfaced." Careful. No one thought Sean Penn would surface either...
...rereading - should, in fact, be required reading for everyone in politics and the commentariat. It might reintroduce them to the bracing idea of moral independence, the idea of telling popularity, money and the media to go to hell. Kennedy studied the behavior of politicians (Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton, Sam Houston, Robert A. Taft, and others) who took profoundly principled but unpopular stands, even at the risk of their own careers...
...William Allen White describes the Senate of the same era as "plutocratic feudalism." The description holds. Who could resist Missouri's Thomas Hart Benton, who, on the day a colleague in the Senate accused him of being quarrelsome, replied: "Mr. President, sir... I never quarrel, sir. But sometimes I fight, sir, and whenever I fight, sir, a funeral follows...